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Dianne Bourne

Inside the huge £1m new Boujee restaurant - with champagne room and Barbie posing boxes

This is the eye-popping new £1m Boujee restaurant that has transformed the vast interior of the former Freemasons Hall in Manchester.

The all-pink new restaurant and bar venue has opened inside the historic memorial hall space at Manchester Hall.

It opened on Monday with an array of bar and dining spaces including an entire champagne room dedicated to Laurent Perrier's pink fizz, and a selfie room complete with Barbie and Ken boxes to pose for an Instagram-worthy snap.

There's even a pink "private jet" for visitors to pose in for photos, while a giant pink fish sculpture has become the new DJ booth at the heart of the main restaurant space.

Boujee restaurant (ABNM Photography)

The restaurant is the latest venue to open from the burgeoning Boujee empire which has been founded by Real Housewives of Cheshire star Lystra Adams and her silent business partners.

It joins the pop up terrace bar by Boujee which is in the vacant lot next to Manchester Hall, and the huge purpose-built Boujee restaurant in Liverpool.

Lystra says she's excited to bring the full Boujee experience to Manchester with the restaurant - which includes a separate "LP Rose" room dedicated to her favourite pink champagne tipple.

On the menu will also be her favourites of oysters and sushi as well as a full small plates menu in all of the different dining spaces across the vast 220-cover venue.

Click below for a full gallery of photos inside the new £1m Boujee restaurant:-

Down in the basement you will find the poser's paradise photo room where there are flower walls, those must-visit Barbie and Ken boxes and the "Boujee airways" private jet, as well as pink hanging swing chairs.

Walking into the venue, off Bridge Street, there are also more photo-worthy spaces with faux florals everywhere and a room adorned with shelves of pink heels and the neon sign shouting: "Need money for shoes".

The restaurant has transformed the huge memorial hall space which had previously opened as Vanitas nightclub, before lockdown shut down the nightclub sector.

The hall, known for its stunning arched ceiling, is now adorned with an array of torsos dangling down from the ceiling, while pink flamingo murals are the backdrop to stylish new booth seating and oyster-shaped chairs.

Barbie and Ken boxes perfect for Instagram moments at Boujee (ABNM Photography)

Lystra, 44, says: "I'm quite loud, and pink is my favourite colour so I just wanted to make this Lystra you know?

"I love to eat out and the first thing I do when I go out is take selfies and videos - everyone loves to do that and put it on Instagram.

"It's about a fun feel, the good vibes, with great food and drinks, it has to all go hand in hand that's very important to me.

"Why not create a restaurant that is Instagrammable? That’s exactly what it is."

Dining space inside Boujee (ABNM Photography)

The cavernous Grade-II listed building, which dates back to 1929, was once Manchester's most secretive building, as the base for the ancient brotherhood of Freemasons on Bridge Street.

Since new owners bought the building they who have spent millions refurbishing the historic Art Deco building into the multi-use restaurant, events and bar space renamed as Manchester Hall.

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